Problemset 8 has ended. You are welcome to post any remarks or questions concerning the problems, as well as short descriptions of your accepted solutions.

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CROSSES

My main idea is: try random moves for the opponent and see if we get the correct score. Then, I only concentrated on searching for the pseudorandom number generator seeds that work.

BRIGAMI

My solution is greedy. The first approach: always choose a cut that cuts off the largest area (gave me a score of 200). Then I changed it to: maximize area cut off divided by extra cut length (outside the inside polygon), to get 210.